A lesson in love

Scott, Addi, and I were just sitting around Dylan and petting her. I started to pat her and Addi looked at me and said, "No mommy, we don't hit. We love. Gentle" Then she picked up my hand and guided me in how to pet and love on Dylan. A little lesson on love from our 2-year old.

Videos

Here are two videos from the other weekend.

She is growing up so quickly!

18 teeth! (and more)

Addi has 18 teeth now! Her second 2nd year molar just cut through. She also pee-peed in the potty yesterday! Usually she just wants to sit on it and hang out but yesterday she actually went! I almost fell over, and I think she was just as shocked as I was. We aren't potty training yet, but at least she finally did more than just sit on it. She has also started asking for her "glasses" each time she has a piece of paper to read. The only glasses she has are sunglasses so it is really cute! "Oh Lord" is one of her newest phrases. Not sure where it came from (maybe school). The other day we were walking through a parking lot and there was water everywhere. She looked up at Scott and said, "oh Lord, Daddy. Water all over."

Life if good in the Myers' household. We are busy and our next several months are about to get much more hectic. I am teaching an undergrad course this year and classes start next week. I am excited to get back in the classroom. I started physical therapy and will probably be going twice a week for a while. I also have two week long conference trips (one to Seattle where Scott will go with me) and one in Jacksonville where the internship program is. Plus, I just started collecting data for my dissertation so I am busy doing interviews, transcribing, observing and analyzing. I am working on a handful of other projects as well. I am excited about everything and hope that things don't get too overwhelming.

Here are some pictures from the last week.

She is actually sleeping like this on the couch.

I've started making bows and clips when I have a little time. Here is one of the curly ones. I made some cute flower ones - vintage looking - the other day as well but don't have pictures.

The other morning I went to take a picture of Addi and after taking one picture she ask me to take a picture of Dylan and Daddy before I took any more of her. So here are the pictures from that sequence.

Date Night

Scott and I had a longer overdue (since May maybe?) date night last weekend. Thanks Natalie for coming over to watch Addi.

We went bowling and played arcade games and then to eat at one of our favorite restaurants. It was a lot of fun and I beat him at skee ball :)

We've decided to do this more often and are looking forward to our overnight stay in Tampa in a few weekends for the Red Sox game (Thanks Brandy for agreeing to watch Addi). I picked up the tickets back in March for Scott's 30th and hotel points are the best!

Rocking out my teal 8lb ball :)

Beer and popcorn...just like the old days

What, another strike?!?!

And yes, I'm the dork that takes pictures at the bowling alley.

Weekend Pictures

Here are some pictures from last weekend.

 

Yum...red velvet cake

That use to be red velvet cake...

Walking on the balance beam (Addi's idea) - luckily neither mom nor Addi fell.

Just hanging around!

I think she won!

Sweet Dylan!

Swimming!

Last Saturday and Sunday we went to one of the city pools. Addi enjoys playing in the area set up for kids, and Scott and I enjoy hanging out and of course the water slide. We also spent time in the big pool so that Addi could try out her puddle jumper in deeper water. She enjoyed it although when she realized we weren't holding her she got scared and upset. We did get her to kick and practice moving her arms like she was swimming. She will not go into the playground area of the activity pool except for one small are with small water spouts (pictured below). She prefers to sit in the 6-inch water and splash and lay on her stomach and "swim" and blow bubbles in the water. She loves rinsing off in the outside pool shower afterward, which doesn't make much sense because she doesn't like the other water falling on her head, but we go with it. We had fun and hopefully will go again this weekend.

A glimpse of the activity pool and Addi and Scott as we get ready to leave

Playing in the bubbles!

Alligator Point

We headed to Alligator Point into the Nature Conservatory with a couple of friends that were invited into the gated area with friends. Addi put on her Puddle Jumper (yay - progress!!!!!) and went into the water with us but she wasn't a big fan since there were some waves. So we mainly hung out on the beach, which was nice although it was almost 100 degrees! We kept pouring water on each other and she really enjoyed that.